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Self-hosted / open sourceBusiness Email & GroupwareHeadquarters: DE

Tine 2.0: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

tine is an open-source groupware suite for collaboration within companies and organisations. It includes a calendar with recurring appointments and resource planning, an address book, email, tasks, a file manager, project time tracking and CRM. Clients can connect through ActiveSync, WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV. The software runs on PHP with MySQL or MariaDB. Organisations can install tine themselves, including through OCI images on Docker Hub, or use it as SaaS.

tine is developed by METAWAYS Infosystems GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, and is released mainly under the AGPLv3. The name is a registered trademark. According to the company's website, the SaaS variant is run by Metaways itself, with server locations in Hamburg; anyone installing tine independently is responsible for operating the server. Both options let a European organisation choose between a German service provider and full control over its own infrastructure.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in DE (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
LINK11 - Link11 GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Business Email & Groupware
Type
Product
Website
tine-groupware.de ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Tine 2.0

The European alternatives to Tine 2.0 come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Tine 2.0

Tine 2.0 is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Tine 2.0 scores best on data residency.

Tine 2.0 is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Tine 2.0 together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Tine 2.0?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Tine 2.0 include Axigen, Benno MailArchiv and BlueMind. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Tine 2.0?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Tine 2.0 include Benno MailArchiv, CipherMail, Dovecot and EGroupware. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Tine 2.0 GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Tine 2.0 is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in DE. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Tine 2.0 an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Digital sovereignty in Business Email & Groupware

Business Email & Groupware: Business email servers, groupware, calendar and contact management. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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